Kabul: Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan continue to deteriorate, with the Taliban regime slamming the neighbouring country for threatening attack and warning it against taking any such action.
The Taliban regime has also expressed strong objection to Pakistan’s accusations about existence of training camps of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Afghanistan, saying such allegations were “baseless”.
The governments of the two countries have been at loggerheads in the wake of increase in the attacks in Pakistan by the TTP which wants implementation of Shariah laws in Pashtun-dominated Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
A few days back, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Sanaullah had said that his country’s forces may carry out attacks in Afghanistan if the Taliban regime did not act against the TTP present on the Afghan soil.
Sanaullah, who is considered close to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, said, “We will first talk to them (Taliban regime) to dismantle the TTP hideouts and hand over the group’s members to Pakistan.
And if the Afghan authorities do not act, “the international laws give you the right to target those who attack you”, the Pakistan Minister threatened.
Reacting to these comments, an angry Afghan National Defence Ministry, said in a statement that the Taliban regime knows how to protect sovereignty of the country and is “ready to defend its territorial integrity and independence”.
It said there is “proof” of TTP bases being in Pakistan and viewed “the Pakistan interior minister’s statement about the presence of TTP in Afghanistan and possible attack as provocative and baseless.”
